Nobody left early. That particular Sunday is still talked about.
Cathedral 101 started in the autumn of 2014 in a rented room above a pastelaria on Rua Afonso Sanches in Cascais. Reverend Thomas Alcott had been chaplain at the British Hospital in Lisbon for five years and kept meeting people who wanted a regular Sunday service closer to home. The first gathering had twelve people, two of whom brought their own chairs. The name came from the address of that first room: number 101, a building that had once been part of a larger ecclesiastical property. It stuck.
Services in English, with Portuguese available on request
Congregation of around sixty regular members, genuinely international
Building on Rua da Misericordia, renovated by congregation members
Open for private prayer on Tuesdays and Thursdays, no booking needed